The School of Art and Design has 4 majors: Product Design, Clothing and Costume Design, Environmental Design, and Public Art. The School attaches great importance to the cultivation of practical ability, and has established several research centers, including the Northeast Regional Decorative Culture Research Center of the Provincial Key Humanities and Social Sciences Base, the Art and Design Experimental Teaching Center, the Design Collaborative Innovation Center and the College students’ Innovation Practice Center. It also consists of 6 offices, which are used in the course teaching to cultivate personalized, skilled and creative application-oriented talents.
48 faculty members are working in the School, including 5 Professors, 9 Associate Professors and 3 Doctors.
The School actively carried out educational reform and research, and won 5 excellent teaching achievement awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level. 2 courses of Clothing major, including “Three-dimensional Cutting”, were selected as provincial online excellent courses.
The School gives full play to the advantages of provincial key research bases and actively carries out scientific research and social service activities. In recent years, it has undertaken a total of 47 government science and technology projects, and has received research funds of more than 8.8 million RMB, including 2 National Art Fund projects; At present, more than 752 papers have been published, 3 monographs have been published, and 61 authorized patents have been obtained.
The School actively conducts scientific and technological innovation activities for college students. In recent years, 25 national college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training programs and 36 provincial college Students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training programs have been appproved. The School regularly organizes students to participate in the exhibition , which helps extend their professional horizons. Students of the School have won more than 500 national, provincial and municipal awards in the “National College Student Advertising Art Competition”, “World Chinese Innovative Design Competition”, “International College Student Snow Sculpture Competition” and other top events.
Focusing on the needs of enterprises in products, clothing and other industries for applied talents, the School keeps on cultivating students’ professional skills and enhancing their advantages in talent market. Over the years, the graduates have been continuously employed in excellent employment units. The School has successfully cultivated more than 5,000 design professionals for the country.
